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Hi and happy Git days! :) |
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Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> It expands to the hash of the blob of that file; and from that, you can |
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> identify which commits the blob exists in. |
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$ git ls-tree HEAD README |
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100644 blob 08ae16956b8944da2fef75fee892dcba457cf4f0 README |
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$ (stat --printf='blob %s\0' README; cat README) | sha1sum |
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08ae16956b8944da2fef75fee892dcba457cf4f0 - |
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This is so simple to generate that it doesn't really need a |
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placeholder in every ebuild in the repository. |
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> The primary use case of it is to allow users to easily see what |
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> version of a given ebuild they are using. |
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I guess the merits of this use case are up for discussion also |
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outside of infra? |
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I think a single tree-wide identifier (let's it a snapshot identifier?) |
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would be far more useful. |
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Kind regards |
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//Peter |
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